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Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a turn-based strategy(TBS) game for the DS based off of the PC title of the same name. Yes, the PC version was an RTS but I actually never thought that game was as amazing as everyone said it was. It was fun for a while but it required a lot more ... Read review
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title of all time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Players command five different civilizations, build armies and take them on scores of campaigns. Boasting t...
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sequel to the award winning best selling real time strategy game age of empires strive to victory with heroes including joan of arc william wallace genghis khan saladin and barbarossa command 1 of 13 mighty civilizations including the franks japanese byzantines vikings mongols and celts the map editor allows you to build your own massive campaigns conquer a worthy opponent over the msn gaming zone lan or m
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real-time strategy game, Age of Empires. Age of Empires II spans 1,000 years, from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages, in which players control the destiny of one o
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of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Microsoft went all out to create this real-time strategy game, and it fairly hums with gorgeous graphics, sophisticated AI and challenging scenarios for the novice and experienced player alike.The point of the game is to shepherd your fledgling civilisation to world domination, using war, trade and exploration. You start with the bare minimum to get going, and you've got to balance your people's needs with your desire to be a little Napoleon.The Age of Kingsgives you a ton of new units and technologies to enrich your strategic options. Each scenario is placed accurately within history, but you're also free to create your own.The multiplayer format is robust, allowing up to nine players to share a world. When battles commence, you can take control of every aspect of your workers and soldiers, sending them running for shelter in the town centre, ordering them to defend a watchtower, or setting their combat stance to aggressive for free-for-all sword smashing fun. When you're not fighting, find your idle peasants with a mouse click and send them back to work chopping trees, rounding up sheep, fishing or mining gold and stone.As you acquire more resources, you can improve your soldier's gear and skills, start to trade more efficiently, and make life better for everyone in your empire. You can choose from 13 groups to manage, from the Japanese to the Teutons and Franks. Each group has unique units and special characteristics, making this a game that changes every time you play it.If all this sounds complicated, it is. New players may be intimidated by the range of choices, but the teaching scenarios are very helpful in conquering the controls.Age of Empires IIis a sophisticated, gorgeous successor to the wildly popular original. It's a real feather in Microsoft's cap--a world-building game that will hold you captive.--Therese Littleton
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Advantages: addictive, covered with strategy, classic AoE sounds, multiplayer on one system, very cheap Disadvantages: battle animations are pretty lame, kind of slow compared to better known TBS games
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Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a turn-based strategy(TBS) game for the DS based off of the PC title of the same name. Yes, the PC version was an RTS but I actually never thought that game was as amazing as everyone said it was. It was fun for a while but it required a lot more managing than a Command and Conquer game required and that took away from the action. Age of Empires for the DS however is more in line with a game like ... ...lot in this review). Age of Empires is basically the same thing. So this game basically takes the Age of Empires units and places them in a game like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem (there are even battle animations).
Age of Empires came out for the DS roughly when the system was released in the US (not sure about Europe). I read in other reviews that this game is probably going to go largely unnoticed but was a fantastic hidden gem. ... more
Ok so I was just reading the other reviews of this game and honestly I don't think those other reviews do this game any justice.
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a turn-based strategy(TBS) game for the DS based off of the PC title of the same name. Yes, the PC version was an RTS but I actually never thought that game was as amazing as everyone said it was. It was fun for a while but it required a lot more managing than a Command and Conquer game required and that took away from the action. Age of Empires for the DS however is more in line with a game like Advance Wars and its sequals. What made Advance Wars so much fun was its addictiveness. When I first bought the first Advance Wars, I remember I must have went through hundred of batteries before I finally put that down, and then the sequel came out, but I had the GBA SP and its rechargeable battery by then thankfully. I could not put that game down (same thing for Fire Emblem; I'll be comparing these 3 games a lot in this review). Age of Empires is basically the same thing. So this game basically takes the Age of Empires units and places them in a game like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem (there are even battle animations).
Age of Empires came out for the DS roughly when the system was released in the US (not sure about Europe). I read in other reviews that this game is probably going to go largely unnoticed but was a fantastic hidden gem. I didn't try this game out until 2 years after it was released and I'm happy I did. I loved Advance Wars and Fire Emblem and this game definitely is keeping me occupied while I await the next sequel to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. All 3 games are basically the same. There's a grid that units, terrain, and buildings are on. You can order your units around and you basically want to destroy your enemy's units. Sounds simple but like other TBS games, there are layers of strategy that aren't apparent to the players until they get into the game. The terrain for example gives units that occupy that grid area a defensive bonus. Of course it's not that much but overall it could keep that unit alive for just that amount of time to swing the tide of combat. This game is strategically deep as there's a system of strengths and weaknesses for each unit (spear men >calvary for example) and exploiting these weaknesses is crucial for achieving victory.
This game has 6 factions (each with its own campaign, one being a tutorial) and all these factions have the same basic set of units but like in other Age of Empire games, building a castle lets you obtain the faction's special unit (Japanese have Samurai for example). What sets this game apart from Advance Wars is the hero unit, which is similar to the Lord in Fire Emblem. Heroes are basically the generals of your faction's army. However unlike the Lord, hero's have powers that can boost allied units or deter enemy units on top of their already powerful attack and defense stats. Units also gain promotions or stat bonuses for participating and surviving combat. Resource collecting is simplified to just owning farms or mines and you get a set amount of resources at the beginning of each day (or turn) depending on the amount of farms or mines you have. Villagers build all buildings (barracks, stable, blacksmith, farms, etc.) like in the PC games. You spend resources on military units, buildings, and research which basically boosts the attack or defense of units, increases the amount of resources you obtain at the beginning of each day, etc. Research is also necessary to advance in age, which is a signature part of the Age of Empires game.
Campaign is pretty lengthy as each faction has its own campaign (divided into around 5-6 missions each), which is based upon a famous part of that faction's history surrounding a famous individual (the hero) from that time period. The campaign's are ordered in increasing difficulty which allows new players to ease into the game but make no mistake, some missions are tough. The second to last mission of the Japanese campaign (which was labeled "easy") was extremely hard and must've taken me 2 hours to complete. Upon beating campaigns and winning skirmishes there's also a "map shop" feature that not only allows you to buy maps with "Empire Points" gained in victories but also allows you to buy units from a particular faction that did not appear in the game like the Welsh bowman, which are upgraded versions of your standard archer units. There's a single system multiplayer mode like in Advance Wars if you want to play with friends on one DS and aren't afraid of draining batteries.
Graphically this game looks kind of awkward. It doesn't make full use of the DS's capabilities in my opinion, but the graphics fit the game. Similar to Advance Wars and Fire Emblem, this game doesn't require amazing graphics to make this game fun. You just need to tell the difference between units. In that sense the graphics are fine. The one thing about the look of the game is the battle animations, which are quirky compared to the silky smooth animations of Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. These can be turned off however. The music on the other hand is amazing and comes straight out of the PC title. The opening theme song is familiar to all Age of Empire players and infantry even get a line of text that they say when they're selected. During battle animations the clash of steel sounds great. The music makes this game feel like Age of Empires.
Overall this game a strategy gamer's paradise. There's an incredible amount of units and strategy that's on par with other great TBS games like Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. While this game draws similarities to both games it still sets itself apart with the Age of Empires atmosphere. This game has already influenced a cell phone version of Age of Empires III that's the same as this game but with a few differences, the main difference being AoE III is in real time as opposed to the turn based nature of this game (think Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings but with grids). Now, this game retails for around 12 USD so there's not reason not to get this game and try out one of the best kept DS secrets since the DS's release. Hopefully this game will get the sequel it so deserves in the near future.
Advantages: Really Fun Game Disadvantages: Can get quite boring
After playing another version of Age Of Empires on PC, I was looking forward to playing this as soon as I bought it. Age Of Empires: The Age Of Kings is a game where you can control one of 5 civilisations, each one with an iconic war figure as their 'Hero' -these are the best warriors, these heroes include Genghis Khan and Richard the Lion heart. You can choose to lay either campaign, or Empire Map, Campaign is where you choose one civilisation and ... ...these come with different difficulty levels, and even a tutorial for the first level. In Empire map, your objective is simply to destroy all civilisation on your opponents side, you can play with up to four teams, and you can play against a friend using the same console. The five different civilisations are: Britons, Saracens, Japanese, Franks, and Mongolians, and each one has different strengths and weaknesses, so you need to choose you team wisely. ...
rwareing 07.05.2010
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I bought this game about 6 months ago and still find the game hard to put down. The strategy required to win a battle is not complex but challenging enough that you can easily lose at the game, so careful thought is required even if you're used to the game. The 5 different heroes within the game add a good dimension to the game with each hero have different abilities which influence the game in varying ways. Problems with the game are that the sound ... ...can be tricky and I find it easier to use the keys, if there is a lot of people in the game it refuses to save and this results in having to start that game again and it can be very annoying! even so it's still a highly addictive game that I recomend to any one who likes this style of game. ...
Quakermet 13.09.2007
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Advantages: Addictive, takes a long time to complete entirely Disadvantages: Simple graphice
After buying this around 3 months ago, I have finally put this game down for long enough to write this review. You see, this is a fantastic game, much simpler and more manageable than its PC-predecessors and wholly and entirely addictive. With between 5 and 6 campaigns for each of the 5 available races, including an entire set of tutorial campaigns for Joan of Arc's French armies, the chance to play your own wars on a range of maps, plenty of unlockables ... ...packed into it than any handheld game I have ever seen. With the campaigns gradually increasing in difficulty, the player can slowly increase their own game ability in order to deal with the more difficult campaigns; I'll admit, there are some campaigns I still cannot complete, but overall, with enough perseverance, anyone can pretty much conquer this game. Even then though, I am still yet to be bored of the multiplayer games. Most importantly for ...
shrimptoast 24.07.2007
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Advantages: great gameplay. Disadvantages: restricted maps. initial levels too easy.
...and played the predecessor game Age of Empires which I thought was great, I was looking forward to playing this one. Although it seems to have the same game engine, I was slightly disappointed as the maps appear to be much smaller and restricted. The first 2 King / level scenarios were much much too easy and it is not until the final King that you need to start thinking and employing tactics. The game is still enjoyable for those fans of turn-based ...
tedzonk 24.09.2009
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Product details
Publisher
Majesco
Developer
Backbone Entertainment
Release Date
14th February 2006
Age
12+
Genre
Strategy
Sub Genre
Turn-Based Strategy
Max Number of Players
1 Player
Platform
Nintendo DS
EAN
4005209075787
Aka
AoE: Age of Kings
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Age of Empires: The Age of Kings for the Nintendo DS is based on the best-selling PC RTS title of all time: Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Players command five different civilizations build armies and take them on scores of campaigns. Boasting turn-based strategy game play Age of Empires: The Age of Kings allows players to move from the Dark Ages through the Middle Ages with one goal in mind: domination of the known world.
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